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Relationship Mapping

Facilitation Market

Facilitation Market is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

Under 5 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), PairsGROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Network Design This relationship mapping exercise strengthens Network Design, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Materials Instructions Purpose: To engage the whole group in a discussion about facilitation skills, to share a story about how those skills might be demonstrated and share ideas and best practices.
  2. Set-up: Download the Workshops & Wizards deck.
  3. For this exercise, you'll be using all of the cards and will need around 2x the number of participants you have.
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Prompts to use +

Materials Instructions Purpose: To engage the whole group in a discussion about facilitation skills, to share a story about how those skills might be demonstrated and share ideas and best practices.

Set-up: Download the Workshops & Wizards deck.

For this exercise, you'll be using all of the cards and will need around 2x the number of participants you have.

Agenda PlannerDrag & drop blocks to create a full agenda in minutes.

CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.

Run this with your AI assistant +

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.

Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Facilitation Market. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Materials Instructions Purpose: To engage the whole group in a discussion about facilitation skills, to share a story about how those skills might be demonstrated and share ideas and best practices.; Set-up: Download the Workshops & Wizards deck.; For this exercise, you'll be using all of the cards and will need around 2x the number of participants you have.; Agenda PlannerDrag & drop blocks to create a full agenda in minutes.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

Origin unverified

  • Where we observed it: The current corpus has one observed source organization: SessionLab. (1 source observed, including SessionLab.)
  • What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
  • No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
  • Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.

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